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Ghetto Blast Rosenthal MutakatiDid you know that it is criminal to be rich? If you didn’t, wait until a poor person dies and see how the affluent are treated. Their acts of generosity and caring under such circumstances are viewed with suspicion. Even those in situations so grim like being run over by a car, summon the
Court to decide on 2013 election dates
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter
JUDGE President George Chiweshe will on Monday either confirm or reject President Mugabe’s proposal that harmonised elections be held in March next year.
He will make the decision when he rules on the urgency of a chamber application in which the President is seeking a further extension of the by-elections deadline from October 1 to March 31 next year.
President Mugabe has since indicated that he wants to call for harmonised elections in the last week of March next year.
The judge is also expected to determine whether it is legally correct for Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa to depose an affidavit in the application on behalf of the President.
Ex-legislators Abednico Bhebhe (Nkayi South), Njabuliso Mguni (Lupane East) and Norman Mpofu (Bulilima East) approached the courts to enforce the holding of by-elections after they lost their seats when they defected from the MDC.
Representing the three, who obtained the order for the proclamation of the by-elections date, Ms Beatrice Mtetwa said Minister Chinamasa was not qualified to depose the affidavit.
She said at least the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission or Finance Minister Tendai Biti could have deposed the affidavit, stating the financial difficulties in holding the by-elections and the challenges facing the Government in logistics.
Ms Mtetwa wants the judge to determine whether or not it was proper for an officer from the Attorney-General to sign a certificate of urgency in the case.
The AG’s Office is the one representing President Mugabe in the case.
Ms Mtetwa also argued that the matter was not urgent considering that the same request for postponement of compliance with the Supreme Court
‘UN general assembly a disappointment’
Caesar Zvayi recently at the UNITED NATIONS, New York
PRESIDENT Mugabe has expressed disappointment with the 67th Session of the UN General Assembly, describing it as one of the same ordinary repetitive sessions world leaders have held in the past.
Speaking to journalists on arrival at the Harare International Airport from the UN headquarters yesterday morning, the President said the state of the UN bids the developing world to move seriously on reforms.
‘‘It wasn’t a good meeting in the sense that the issues that should have been prominent, issues to deal with unilateralism and multi-lateralism, were sidelined.
‘‘In the General Assembly, the people were just making statements, for instance US president Barack Obama. He just talked about Stevens (the US ambassador who was killed in Libya), nothing that was global, in terms of how the world should move in reforming the UN.
‘‘Yes, we had statements that were made on reforming the UN, but they were just statements. There is need for real movement by the developing world.
“It’s as if we are the minority yet those who have the veto are in fact the minority.’’
The build-up to the 67th Session of the UNGA that officially opened on Tuesday under the theme “Bringing About Adjustment or Settlement of International Disputes or Situations by Peaceful Means”, was characterised by debate on the relevance of the UN to the prevailing geo-political challenges confronting the world.
A high level meeting on the Rule of Law at the International and National Level that convened on Monday was naturally dominated by debate on the need to reform the UN system to make it democratic and effective.
The document released at the end of the meeting implored member states to be bound by the founding principles of the UN, among them the sovereign equality of member states.
US: Bitten by own Pet
The September 15th to 21st issue of the Economist has a huge leader splash titled “Murder in Libya”. The gist of the leader piece is to urge “the world’s policeman not (to) retreat from the world’s most dangerous region.”
The world’s policeman is the United States and the most dangerous region is North Africa and the whole of the Middle East. America, exhorts the piece, “indeed should do more.” Do more what? More killing, more dying?
Kevin Kaindu deserves the Coach of the Year award, even in the highly unlikely event that his team collapses, because what he has done at Bosso is very, very special
Ithimu yezwe lonke, the nation’s team, they used to sing at Barbourfields during the good days of Zenzo Moyo and Thabani Masawi at the turn of the millennium, and in the year that Tuku celebrated his 60th birthday, with a big birthday bash, you can hear them singing once again in the City of Kings.Ihave always considered myself a child of music and, having been born just six months after the historic Woodstock Festival of ’69 in New York, maybe there is considerable justification for that.
Woodstock was a defining moment in the history of music, a four-day mass concert organised by four young men that attracted an estimated 500
Two Redliff men jailed for murder
Midlands Bureau Chief
TWO men from Redcliff who in 2010 murdered their friend following a misunderstanding during a beer drink have each been sentenced to 19 years in prison by senior Bulawayo High Court judge, Justice Nicholas Ndou.
Nust demands full fees before admission
Chronicle Reporter
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) has demanded that students should pay full fees upon registration, a move that will see thousands of students failing to register before the deadline today.
Workers, creditors own 31pc of BNC
Business Reporter
Bindura Nickel Corporation (BNC) workers and creditors now own 31,74 percent of the company after a private placement to settle part of a $21 million debt choking the company.
More woes for Bosso treasurer
Lovemore Dube
HIGHLANDERS might have been prejudiced of $37 000 from gate-takings by its treasurer Odiel Nkomo who is now under investigations for allegedly defrauding the club from match day earnings.
The under fire treasurer has been asked by Grant Thornton Auditors to explain discrepancies between what he recorded as Highlanders earnings which seem to differ with figures obtained from the Premier Soccer League.
Campaign peacefully in run up to elections
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The setting of March next year as the date of the harmonised elections makes a lot of organisational and financial sense. President Mugabe had been given until next week on Monday to proclaim dates for by-elections in Nkayi South, Lupane East and Bulilima East. The three seats fell vacant following the expulsion of Abednico Bhebe (Nkayi South), Njabuliso Mguni (Lupane East) and Norman Mpofu (Bulilima East) from the smaller MDC formation led by Professor Welshman Ncube. The three had sought the legal route to compel the President to proclaim dates for the by-elections.